Owners Of Knowledge — Without The Smell

სუნთქვის გარეშე( Without The Smell ) is a two-track release from Georgia’s Owners Of Knowledge- who create walled noise, be it dense, textured,or mixing the two states. Both tracks featured come in dead on the twenty-five-minute mark – one is dense & textual detail-lined, while the other is crude/rough-shod textured roll- so a decent contrast.

ცოდნის მფლობელები( Owners Of Knowledge) has been active since 2020. Putting out so far around seventy releases to its name...most of these been digital downloads

The artwork for this release is monochrome- taking in a picture of creased sheet of paper/ similar. The release can be downloaded here.

We open with “scraped slips”. Here we find a thick crust of a constantly rolling bass knock,  noise drone, and low-grade chugg.  Through this we get these thinner layer textureal drifts- be it an uneven rail-like scrape,  mid-range like drifting bays, industrial-like knocks, fog horn etc. There is a thick yet rewarding mystery to the track,

The second track is “Candidates” This is a thinner wall- focusing on a weave of constant rolling crackle, Hiss, and almost watery flow. From time to time there’s a very subtle hint of bobbing middle-ranged drone. This wall had a most pleasing/ soothing quilty about it.

So, Without The Smell is another consistent/varied release from Owners Of Knowledge- I’ve been most impressed by other recent releases by this project, so it’s great to see this album is following that trend,